Michael Davis

Forget the republic, bring back the monarchy

9 April 2016 9:00 am

Throughout much of the Middle East, monarchists offer a way to bring about modernity and tackle Islamism

Trump Derangement Syndrome

26 March 2016 9:00 am

Why such antipathy to The Donald?

Bush notes

27 February 2016 9:00 am

‘Most dynasties are defined and circumscribed by region,’ goes a 2001 op-ed in the Washington Post. ‘The Roosevelts rode as…

Primary notes

30 January 2016 9:00 am

My heart sank when I read the PM arrived in Washington, DC just a few days after I left. God…

An Aussie Trump?

9 January 2016 9:00 am

Australian politics lacks an anti-political correctness leader

Clash of uncivilisations

28 November 2015 9:00 am

To defeat Islamic fascism, the nations of the enlightenment need to start believing in themselves

On ‘muscular liberalism’

7 November 2015 9:00 am

Liberals are learning they may have to fight for what they believe in

Drunken notes

24 October 2015 9:00 am

I’m a bit drunk, so let’s just get this over with: I love Malcolm Turnbull. Now, hold your tomatoes, proles.…

Blue blood notes

10 October 2015 9:00 am

My sole dream in life is to be a champagne socialist. It irritates me no end that there’s no apparent…

Syrian Anzacs

19 September 2015 9:00 am

Let’s train middle-east refugees to fight for their homeland rather than to hate or terrorise ours

Joe for Prez

5 September 2015 9:00 am

Now that the economy’s all done and dusted, it’s time to focus on the really important stuff - like an Oz Republic

Self-loathing at first sight

15 August 2015 9:00 am

The Left have so successfully stereotyped the Right, that now they believe it themselves

Orange glow

18 July 2015 9:00 am

The NSW smoking ban is an Inglorious revolution

Bottom drawer

11 July 2015 9:00 am

Putin, Franco and the Tsar

Let Charles do the Recognising

27 June 2015 9:00 am

Rather than a phony, legalistic preamble, let the Australian monarch recognise who was here first

Bottom Drawer

30 May 2015 9:00 am

Republican monarchists

Bottom drawer

18 April 2015 9:00 am

Professor Anne Twomey (‘Royal activism in the spider web of secrecy’, 4 April) argues that Prince Charles’s use of his…